Tingupidae

Tingupidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Diplopoda
Order:	Chordeumatida
Superfamily:	Brannerioidea
Family:	Tingupidae Loomis, 1966

Tingupidae is a family of millipedes in the order Chordeumatida. ^[1] Adult millipedes in this family have 28 or 30 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last). ^{[2] [3] [4]} There are 2 genera and 13 described species in Tingupidae. ^{[5] [6]}

Genera

• Blancosoma Shear & Hubbard, 1998
• Tingupa Chamberlin, 1910

References

1. Shelley, Rowland M. "Millipedes". ag.tennessee.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
2. Shear, William A.; Shelley, Rowland M. (2007-01-18). "Tingupa tlingitorum, n. sp., a new milliped from Haines, Alaska, USA, with notes on the generic distribution and a revised key to species (Chordeumatida: Tingupidae)" . Zootaxa. 1393 (1): 53–59. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1393.1.6. ISSN   1175-5334.
3. Shear, William A.; Hubbard, David A. Jr. (1998). "Cave millipeds of the United States. IV. A new genus and species from a high altitude cave in Colorado (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Tingupidae)" (PDF). Myriapodologica. 5 (8): 85–94.
4. Shear, William A. (2009-11-16). "Buotidae, a new family for the minute North American milliped Buotuscarolinus (Chamberlin) 1940 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)". Zootaxa. 2290 (1): 41–49. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2290.1.4 . ISSN   1175-5334.
5. "Tingupidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
6. "MilliBase - Tingupidae Loomis, 1966". www.millibase.org. Retrieved 2022-03-03.

Further reading

• Lee, Paul; Harding, P. (2006). Atlas of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland. Vol. 59. Pensoft.
• Hoffman, Richard L. (1999). Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History.
• Foddai, Donatella; Dallai, Romano (1995). Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. Calderini.
• Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN   978-1402062421.